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Wormhole-GUI 2.2

37 points by Jacalz 6y ago

jalude 6y ago
The GUI looks great! Awesome that it is cross platform. Does wormhole do any hole punching yet? Looks like https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole/issues/6 https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole/issues/6 is still open. I think if that issues gets tackled this would be a pretty amazing tool.
- Jacalz 6y ago
  Thanks. I don't think it does that yet, no. I'd recommend you to check out https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william for the implementation that I am using.
- Sean-Der 6y ago
  You can use https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole if you want P2P file transfer. It only has a CLI tool right now for desktops. It works in the browser though, so that is great for users looking for a GUI!
  - Jacalz 6y ago
    It is literally using the same wormhole-william backend that I am using for wormhole-gui. I don't quite see how that would be any different. Interestingly enough, I have actually never gotten that one to work :)
jonpalmisc 6y ago
Nice to see a real world app using Fyne. Been following the Go GUI landscape for a while, hoping to see it keep growing.
slezyr 6y ago
It seems, that you can't configure Fyne's font rendering. On Linux systems, it looks quite bad.
- Jacalz 6y ago
  You should be able to just start it with FYNE_FONT= environment variable and set a custom font that way.
  - slezyr 6y ago
    I mean font hinting, the fonts look very blurry.
    - Jacalz 6y ago
      Okay. Might be good to open an issue for that on https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne. I personally use Linux as my main development platform and cannot reproduce it.
kristopolous 6y ago
So this technology shares files on a local network? Isn't that a very solved problem? How is this different? Sorry I'm very dumb here.
- hackeraccount 6y ago
  I don't think it's limited to a local network. I believe you can copy files anywhere. See https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
  - kristopolous 6y ago
    The GUI people then need to fix their first sentence "Wormhole-gui is a cross-platform graphical interface for magic-wormhole that lets you easily share files, folders and text between computers on the local network." Or am I confused again?
    - Jacalz 6y ago
      Good point. I might have to update that. I have never actually tried transferring between two networks and did not want to advertise i in case it didn't work.
    - Jacalz 6y ago
      It does indeed work outside of the local network. I have updated the documentation.
- na85 6y ago
  >Isn't that a very solved problem? Not in my experience. Most solutions I've found tended to be more work/brittle than just emailing the file to myself, which is a sad statement about ad hoc file sharing. Other solutions like $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer or spinning up an ftp server work okay too but sometimes you run into NAT problems if you're traversing e.g. residential home networks. Magic wormhole is simply the best way to get files between arbitrary points A and B, irrespective of operating systems or NATs and firewalls in between. I've never had it not work.
Jacalz 6y ago
I think it might be worth mentioning that I am planning on adding mobile support pretty soon. Some experimental work has already started on the mobile branch: https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/tree/mobile https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/tree/mobile.
karmakaze 6y ago
I thought it was some sort of GUI library. > Cross-platform graphical user interface for easy encrypted sharing of files, folders, and text between devices. ...in Go using Fyne (as noted in another comment) [0] https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne

37 points by Jacalz 6y ago

The GUI looks great! Awesome that it is cross platform. Does wormhole do any hole punching yet? Looks like https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole/issues/6 https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole/issues/6 is still open. I think if that issues gets tackled this would be a pretty amazing tool.

Jacalz 6y ago
Thanks. I don't think it does that yet, no. I'd recommend you to check out https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william for the implementation that I am using.
Sean-Der 6y ago
You can use https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole if you want P2P file transfer. It only has a CLI tool right now for desktops. It works in the browser though, so that is great for users looking for a GUI!
- Jacalz 6y ago
  It is literally using the same wormhole-william backend that I am using for wormhole-gui. I don't quite see how that would be any different. Interestingly enough, I have actually never gotten that one to work :)

jonpalmisc 6y ago

Nice to see a real world app using Fyne. Been following the Go GUI landscape for a while, hoping to see it keep growing.

slezyr 6y ago

It seems, that you can't configure Fyne's font rendering. On Linux systems, it looks quite bad.

Jacalz 6y ago
You should be able to just start it with FYNE_FONT= environment variable and set a custom font that way.
- slezyr 6y ago
  I mean font hinting, the fonts look very blurry.
  - Jacalz 6y ago
    Okay. Might be good to open an issue for that on https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne. I personally use Linux as my main development platform and cannot reproduce it.

kristopolous 6y ago

So this technology shares files on a local network? Isn't that a very solved problem? How is this different? Sorry I'm very dumb here.

hackeraccount 6y ago
I don't think it's limited to a local network. I believe you can copy files anywhere. See https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
- kristopolous 6y ago
  The GUI people then need to fix their first sentence "Wormhole-gui is a cross-platform graphical interface for magic-wormhole that lets you easily share files, folders and text between computers on the local network." Or am I confused again?
  - Jacalz 6y ago
    Good point. I might have to update that. I have never actually tried transferring between two networks and did not want to advertise i in case it didn't work.
  - Jacalz 6y ago
    It does indeed work outside of the local network. I have updated the documentation.
na85 6y ago
>Isn't that a very solved problem? Not in my experience. Most solutions I've found tended to be more work/brittle than just emailing the file to myself, which is a sad statement about ad hoc file sharing. Other solutions like $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer or spinning up an ftp server work okay too but sometimes you run into NAT problems if you're traversing e.g. residential home networks. Magic wormhole is simply the best way to get files between arbitrary points A and B, irrespective of operating systems or NATs and firewalls in between. I've never had it not work.

Jacalz 6y ago

I think it might be worth mentioning that I am planning on adding mobile support pretty soon. Some experimental work has already started on the mobile branch: https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/tree/mobile https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/tree/mobile.

karmakaze 6y ago

I thought it was some sort of GUI library. > Cross-platform graphical user interface for easy encrypted sharing of files, folders, and text between devices. ...in Go using Fyne (as noted in another comment) [0] https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne